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Democratic presidential candidate AndrewYang took to the stage Thursday with a big surprise: His campaign wants to give $1,000 a month to 10 U.S. citizens for one year, a very public $120,000 trial balloon for his universal basic income proposal. As one of the most successful self-described entrepreneurs to throw his hat in the presidential ring...

MOSCOW: It's mission over for a robot called Fedor that Russia blasted to the International Space Station, the developers said Wednesday, admitting he could not replace astronauts on space walks. "He won't fly there any more. There's nothing more for him to do there, he's completed his mission," Yevgeny Dudorov, executive director of robot...

A man is thought to have died after he shot at a car on a southeast London street and the bullet ricocheted back, fatally wounding him The victim in his 20s died at the scene in Sydenham on Sunday afternoon, Scotland Yard said. Witnesses in the area said it appeared the man had accidentally shot...

(CNN)India is one step closer to achieving its space superpower ambitions. If the Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission successfully touches down on Friday, the country will join the United States, China and the former Soviet Union in an elite club of nations that have made a soft landing on the moon. And if all goes to plan, India will become the second...

NANTES — Robots are often accused of stealing people’s jobs but night club dancers have not had to worry – until now. Two robots in high heels will make their debut next week at the SC-Club in Nantes, western France, performing pole dancing routines for a month to mark the club’s fifth anniversary. Designed by British artist Giles...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - A former Google engineer was charged Tuesday with stealing self-driving car technology from the company shortly before he joined Uber's efforts to catch up in the high-stakes race to build robotic vehicles. The indictment filed by the U.S. attorney's office in San Jose, California, is an offshoot of a lawsuit filed in 2017 by...

The assembly of the ExoMars rover is now complete ahead of its proposed blast-off date next year. However, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ExoMars mission to the Red Planet could hang in the balance, as successful tests on the rover’s parachutes are yet to be conducted. The Rosalind Franklin rover’s supersonic parachutes will be put through their...

August 24 is a very sad day in the hearts of an especially loyal and dogged sect of Pluto groupies. On this day in 2006, Pluto was demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet, sparking a debate that continues to bubble up in comment sections to this day. But on the eve of “Pluto Demotion Day” this year, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine gave fresh...

BEIJING (AP) — PresidentDonald Trump on Friday called on U.S. companies with operations in China to consider an alternative place to do business after Beijing announced a series of retaliatory tariffs Friday. "I will be responding to China's Tariffs this afternoon," Trump tweeted. "This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States." U.S. markets...

Russia’s Soyuz-2.1 rocket has blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome as part of a test flight to check compatibility of the upgraded booster and spacecraft – which this time carries only a humanoid robot to the ISS. “The flight will be carried out in unmanned mode. It will be a...

WASHINGTON: Amazon, Microsoft and Intel are among leading tech companies putting the world at risk through killer robot development, according to a report that surveyed major players from the sector about their stance on lethal autonomous weapons. DutchNGO Pax ranked 50 companies by three criteria: whether they were developing technology that...

Despite the nuclear industry stumbling in the domestic United States, the country is looking to put nuclear reactors on Mars and the Moon. While the nuclear energy industry is struggling to stay afloat in the United States, bogged down by public and political mistrust, crushing nuclear waste-maintenance costs, and a market flooded by cheap natural...

On Aug. 12, a man named VincentPeone shared a video of himself boarding a plane all alone, alleging that Delta Airlines gave him his own private flight after his trip from Colorado to Utah was rescheduled. “Last week Delta gave me my own private jet…kind of,” he wrote on Twitter. Last week @Delta gave me my own private jet...kind...